Posted on 05/26/2023 6:52:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
Viktor Orbán's Controversial Remarks at Qatar Economic Forum
DOHA, Qatar (ChurchMilitant.com) - The prime minister of Hungary did more than just talk about money at the Qatar Economic Forum (QEF) in the capital city of the Middle Eastern country this week — he broached controversial topics such as Christian-Muslim cooperation and peace in Ukraine.
Viktor Orbán, who traveled to Doha to attend the QEF by invitation of his Qatari counterpart, His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, joined a wide array of heads of state and business leaders. The three-day forum, backed by the left-leaning billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg, was titled "A New Global Growth Story."
Cutting Through Claptrap
During the opening session, Bloomberg spoke in obvious, even cliché, terms about global economic challenges and solutions. The former candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president of the United States said:
This continues to be a turbulent time for the global economy. We've seen some of the biggest bank failures since the Great Recession. Credit is tightening. Inflation is running high. Russia's war on Ukraine continues. And the climate crisis will continue to grow worse without a bolder, faster energy transition.
But into this mix of hard-core leftists and anti-religious globalists stepped the conservative leader from his small, majority-Catholic, 1,000-year-old nation in the heart of Europe to talk about the unexpected. He used the forum not just to talk in hackneyed terms about economic struggles but to talk about religious issues that undergird economic ones.
In an interview with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait, Orbán, quite out of step with the other presenters, said:
"Christians and Muslims can and should cooperate on the main dilemmas of the future, like migration, gender propaganda and sovereignty. Christians and Muslims can and should work together to defend traditional values," he said.
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Defend traditional values? Moslem traditional values often conflict with Christian traditional values.
Been saying it, it will be Muslims who will be the tip of the spear and fighting back against this craziness, because Christians are sitting it out. That will have consequences down the road.
Viktor Orbán is no dummy. I admire him greatly. He is the Hungarian Donald Trump.
Nevertheless, I must warn him. To a Muslim, “cooperation” means play along with the infidel until an advantage is reached. Then strike at the infidel’s throat.
I’m guessing (hoping) that Orbán knows this, and is carefully maneuvering in dangerous waters. Watch out for the shoals, Úr (Mister) Orbán.
If Muslims and Christians end up finding common ground I wonder...
Considering both groups are now considered "enemies of the State"....they're being forced onto common ground.
Has he never heard the parable of the frog and the scorpion?
Idiot. There can be no cooperation between Christians and the Muslims who want to conquer them. Of all people the Hungarians should know this.
When something like “The Abraham Accords” actually gets implemented, get ready for the fun to begin.
Very few understand what is coming.
You ain’t seen nothing yet (with apologies to Bachman-Turner Overdrive).
They don't share traditional values.
Appeasement never works with muslims. Islam will just absorb, chew up, and spit out any ideology that is in conflict with it.
Islam doesn't share. It consumes.
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